The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1887-09-08

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be? No, no, friends! The capture
| of the Grand Army is too big an un-
dertaking for the administration.
There should be no politics thrust in
to a Soldiers Reunion, under any
circumstances, but, if the Soldiers
cannot admire Mr.. Cleveland, there
should not be any attempt to compel
them to do it. No matter how
shrewdly the plan is laid, it will fail.
1t is favorite argument with the
doggery interest that ''as long as there
is a demand for whisky, it will be
sold" Reasoning from this stand
point, the doggery-keeper seeks to
pose before the people as great CON-
mercial agent, supplying one of the
wants of the public and demands of
the market. But manv good people
take different view of this matter,
and the little village of Fairmount,
Indiana, furnished last week an illus
tratiun Of this side Of the question.
There was no saloon in the place, and
no demand for intoxicating liquors of
any kind. Our information-com-
ing from the doggery side Of the
questions that nine-tenths of the
people Of that village are strong tenn
perance people. But Ira j. Smith
and we very much dislike to present
the good old name of Smith in so dis
graceful light-proposed to open a
doggery in Paramount. What for?
Did anybody in the village want it?
there? Was there any demend there !?
No. The crafty Smith knew that if
he could get his internal den started,
there would soon be. enough young
men started on the road to damnation
to make demand for his stuff, and he
wanted. to start the doggery to create
the demand. Nothing could be plain
er. So, before the day Of the
grand opening Of the first doggery in
the temperance town, the internal
man-trap was blown skyward with
dynamite. This was wrong, Of course,
but the perpetrators doubtless knew
that if the den were once started no
law now existing would touch it,
though it killed every boy in the COM
munity. The devil who attempted to
start it, began building again, and had
his building nearly completed, when
the citizens turned out as one man,
and one woman. too, and chopped the
thing down to the ground. Now the
leaders will probably be taken before
some learned Judge-who has been
in the habit of lodging in and out of
the back door of such place in some
neighboring town, and have the "con-
stooshen" and the statutory law ex-
pounded, ending with the full penalty
for malicious destruction Of property.
This case is clear and full refutation
Of the nonsensical bluster about there
being a demand for drink" Mr..
Tanning, in his talk here some time
ago, spoke the exact truth when he
said "the supply creates the demand
and not the demand the supply" But
let fight come up between doggery
on the one hand, and moral, relig-
ious community, fighting in its own
defense ON the other-and the whole
might as we'll as the inventive genius
of the representative Of the law, will
be brought to bear-not to protect So
ciety; not to enforce law; not to rem
der home safe as well as a sacred
place; not to make men good citizens,
and encourage prosperity in commu-
mites; but to increase. and encourage,
and protect the Devils business; to
remove every shade and trace of pro-
lection from the home; to drag down
the Judicial. ermine and make Of it
for low-down swill-house;
to make the temples Of justice houses
of refuge for the worst criminals of
which the human mind can conceive;
to make law laughing-stock and the
dignity Of the law a faucet for swill
barrel. Such is the situation. It is
scarcely wonderful, therefore, that the
citizens of little hamlet like this In
diana town, rather than go into such
a long and hopeless fight, take the
shorter method of destroying the den
by force and laying themselves liable
before the law, The politician who
imagines that he can divert the atten-
tion of the people from the disgust
ing, dangerous, horrible aspect of the
1oggery business, by placing any po-
itical party before the doggery and
warning the people that they cannot
njure the doggery without injuring
,he party, is making a pitiable fool of
himself. The people should strike
'quarely at the doggery, and if any
body desires to feel safe, let him get
,ut of the way. And the sentiment
S growing so rapidly that the ballots
If good citizens will be loaded with
political dynamite, in the near future,
hat will have wondrously awaken
ng effect. A man who will advocate
! doggery is unworthy of political
rust.